.European Steel calls for a 50pc tariff as part of post-safeguard tariff-rate quota regime, alongside a 50pc drop in duty-free volumes argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

Nationalisation may prop up surplus steelmaking capacity, according to worldsteel director general Edwin Basson argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

As the UK government looks to implement measures to bring energy costs in line with those of Germany, German mills further postpone decarb projects because of uncompetitive energy costs...

The UK's 15pc cap on the residual HDG #steel quota could strand around one year worth of supply argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

We reported this as a possibility back in May. I'd be very surprised if the government has not contemplated the idea of repackaging parts of Speciality with British Steel, to feed some of the lines with EAF production msn.com/en-gb/money/ne…

Excited to watch Sophie representing the northwest at the trampoline, tumbling and DMT inter-regional finals at the Utilita Arena Birmingham today!

Sophie at regionals landing a fullback, which she was struggling with until just two weeks ago.

UK #steel HDG buyers duplicating import orders as they cannot access material from Vietnam and Korea; the respective capped quotas for both are currently suspended until 1 August. argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

EU HRC #steel quota utilisation is at multi-year lows, as previous measures (AD and residual cap) begin to bite. argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

My six year old is much better at drawing than me!

UK plays down threat of #steel mill expropriation argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

Story with my colleagues Lora and Amruta on an Indian mill being informed of an impending AD investigation into its #steel CRC sales into the EU. We have been hearing for months now that Japan and India would also be investigated. argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

Violet’s latest masterpiece.

The UK is likely to be the only country that gets a 25pc tariff for sales into the US - others more likely to get quotas with a 50pc out of quota tariff argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

An interesting increase in Kazahk rebar imports into the EU of late, all destined for Czech Republic. Word on the street is it might not be from Kazakhstan!

Poland imported 6,579t of #steel billet from the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, at an average landed price of €465/t. Errrr.

#BBCQT is a really great example of what is wrong with modern political discourse in the era of social media: everybody eager to make their points without actually listening to others.

"Civil war in the UK steel sector". Nothing different since I started covering it in 2008 = mills with one agenda, buyers with another. thetimes.com/business-money…

Violet’s (7yo) latest masterpiece

Indonesia, which is out of scope of the current EU #hrc #steel safeguard, was 45pc of all import volume in November 2025! In the first 11 months of last year the EU imported over 1.3mn t of Indonesian HRC.